
Livestock
Poultry/Eggs
Reuters
Scientists isolate human gene able to fend off most bird flu viruses
London | Reuters — U.K. researchers have homed in on a human gene implicated in thwarting most bird flu viruses from infecting people. Bird flu chiefly spreads among wild birds such as ducks and gulls and can also infect farmed birds and domestic poultry such as chickens, turkeys and quails. […]